Chapter 34 Summary

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> Chapater Thirty-Four, PRIOR INCANTATEM

Good Summary, Jeralyn!
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> Questions
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> 1.	Harry has beaten Voldemort on several occasions by now.  Why then did Voldemort untie him and give him back his wand?  Is he on drugs or just stupid?
	Maybe all the transformations he's been through have left his mind 
as deformed as his body. But he's been brooding on his revenge against 
Harry for 13 years, and he doesn't want it to be over too quickly. 
Voldie likes to draw things out, as he did in the Chamber of Secrets.

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> 2.	Were the apparitions emerging from Voldie's wand ghosts?  If not, what were they and why were they able to speak to Harry?
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	The narrative calls them echoes. They are not ghosts, they are 
dark and smokey, ghosts are pearly white and transparent. I think they 
are images that reflect the personality of the victim in the same way 
that the images in wizard photos do, but like the images in the 
Hogwarts portraits, they are able to speak.


> 3.	We know that the Avada Kedavra curse is associated with green light.  But what was the symbolism, if any, of the red light streaming from Harry's wand?
	Red is the complementary color to green (opposite on the color 
wheel) 
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> 4.	Do you wish that, even though the original wand order was a mistake, Jo had worked with it and come up with a reason for James' emerging first?
	I agree that Lily coming last would have been more dramatically 
effective, but presumably JKR has her reasons.

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> 5.	Do you think we'll see Cedric's ghost at Hogwart's now?
	 I think Mrs. Diggory's comment, "...he died just when he'd won 
the tournament. He must have been happy." is significant. Cedric's body 
has been returned and he didn't suffer, so I don't think he'll become a 
ghost. 
Pippin